Three Meerkats in Toronto
Harley is the one who surprises people.
Harold is faith. Luce is appetite. Those two are legible from the first frame - you know what they want, and you know they'll fight about it. Harley faints. He cries when dinner is cancelled, and doesn't seem to want anything at all until the very end.
These are not moments one envisions when thinking about AI film, which is why I wanted to enter Cinema Shift's AI Festival. A festival focused on "narrative films that use AI as a creative tool, guided by human authorship and cultural intent."
That sounded awfully familiar.
The reply from Cinema Shift was, "Egg belongs in the conversation we're building around narrative cinema, authorship, and AI-assisted filmmaking."
I guess they agreed with me.
Egg has been selected for the first edition of the Cinema Shift Festival in Toronto. It screens June 5 at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema. And I'm so excited.
It's Canada's first curated AI narrative film festival, and the curatorial angle fills me with joy. They are programming films that tell stories, not films that demonstrate technology. Here's to filmmakers in a new medium!
They wanted story. I'm sending meerkats. Hungry, wondrous, weird felt meerkats, processing the unknown.
Ever forward.